Family & Friends

Central Bank is excited to celebrate 140 years of banking in Storm Lake. During the month of May, Central Bank offered a CD special and hosted an open house each Friday. Guests were encouraged to register for the bank’s cash prize drawing of $1,400. The winner was drawn on June 1. The lucky winner was Juan Martinez of Storm Lake. Juan was pleased to come in and pick up his money.

Central Bank would like to thank the community for helping them celebrate 140 years of banking!

Farmers and factory workers – now there’s no excuse not to wear a wedding ring! We learned about Groove Rings from Chris and Michelle Rasmussen, whose family is moving to Haiti this month to become missionaries.

The Storm Lake couple has been raising funds for their big move in unique ways. One of them is a partnership with Groove Life, makers of Groove Rings, the rubbery rings considered far more practical than metal ones.

There’s still time to join the fourth annual Ride for the Cure, the tractor ride around Storm Lake next Saturday, June 17 to benefit local cancer patients.

Michelle Schreck started the ride, she said, because she had a pink Tractor, the nice pink Farmall H shown above, and her mother had breast cancer. Her event has come to support all other types of cancer too.

The ride starts in Lakeside on Elm St. with registration at 8:30 a.m. They ride around the lake, ending up at the Columbus Club Hall for lunch. Registration costs $40 and includes the lunch and a shirt.

Storm Lake Public Library will conclude the 1950s portion of our Great Directors Series with an Alfred Hitchcock thriller from 1959 on Monday, June 12.

Starring Cary Grant, Eva Marie Saint and James Mason, this month's film has an electrifying plot that turns on a case of mistaken identity: Roger Thornhill, a innocent man played by Grant, is pursued across the United States by agents of a mysterious organization.

Just a short time before Jesus was arrested and unlawfully charged with crimes He didn’t commit and suffered an excruciating death on the cross of Calvary, He tried to prepare His followers so they weren’t caught off guard with the events that were about to transpire.

There’s room for all types of talents in Buena Vista Community Theatre’s “Beauty and the Beast.” Take director Callie Wobbema’s dad Howard Diischer. He figured out how to make petals drop one by one from the Enchanted Rose in its glass enclosure in the Beast’s room.

“If he hasn’t learned to love by the time all the petals fall, he will remain a beast forever,” explains Callie, for those who don’t quite remember the plot.